my world in moments

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Every Autumn I get to admire the amazing colours of the liquid amber tree my mother’s garden. I don’t remember the colours changing from green, to yellow, to orange. At least I got to see them these last days of autumn before winter’s chilly winds sweep them away. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Last Days of Autumn’, […]

This amazing mess of red and crimson is destined for greatness, albeit an ephemeral greatness. The purple black texted surface is a floating raft of grape skins and seeds. The stream of red fluid is the juice of the shiraz fruit crushed a few days before. What is actually taking place here is this fermenting […]

Does a sunset have to have the sun in it? Surely if the sun has set then it will not be visible. Perhaps the more traditional images of setting suns should be called sun settings. I have come to love that time well after the sun has set below the horizon but still lighting up […]

Yesterday we said our last goodbyes to an extraordinary man who in his short 51 years touched the hearts, minds and souls of everyone who came to know him. To me, Kym was a childhood buddy, my very first real friend (not including family and neighbours), having met when I was five years old and […]

When I was presented with the wine list I knew we were somewhere special. I grew up in the picturesque German heritage town of Tanunda in the Barossa Valley, a region of vineyards, wineries and winemakers. As a child the idea of an Asian restaurant anywhere in the Barossa would have skirted the realm of […]